" . . . painting the looser side of realism . . ."
Writing about my life as an artist, plein air painting, traveling and whatever else might intrigue me.

Saturday, July 06, 2013

Camino: Day 23, July 6

There was just a sliver of moon this morning. We got up at 5:30 am to pack get a quick 1st breakfast of toast coffee and juice.

Even my backpack was tired today.

Hot again, not as breezy, however. When we stopped for second breakfast of bacon and eggs, who found us but Irish Diane, who had walked out of our Camino in Burgos. As Veronique said, the Camino is elastic.

Diane walked a bit with us, but she was walking farther than us, so she left us in the dust.

We stopped in a shady park to eat lunch and there on a bench was a box of books. Luke was happy.

We are now installed in the municipal alberge in Sahagun. We are past halfway and walked into our 4th province. Only 18 more days.

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Permanent Collections : Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio Supreme Court, Ohio Historical Society, Central Ohio Diabetes Association, Open Heart Recovery Unit, University Hospital, Baltimore, MD, Richmond Art Museum, IN; Private collections in the US, England, France and New Zealand
"Debra Joyce Dawson paints colorful, evocative outdoor landscapes. She travels extensively, and her paintings can serve as a painterly travelogue to India, Bhutan, England, Ireland, as well as to her more local surroundings. Her medium of choice is oil, with preparatory sketches in graphite, charcoal, pen or watercolor. Some works are small and completed en plein air; other works are larger and more complex renderings done in her studio. Her energy and delight in color, light, and shape are dazzling. But she never surrenders her subject, and each building, boat, hillside, or human figure is carefully pinned to the picture plane in the context of its surroundings. This places her in the best context of American Impressionism, whether one considers John Singer Sargent or Ohio’s own Alice Schille or Edward Henry Potthast." - Susan Talbot-Stanoway, Director Zanesville Museum of Art